This year at the IFA 2017 we gave out FoneArena Awards to some of the latest products that were introduced at the event. We gave these awards under several categories such as Best Smartphone, Best Product, Best Innovation and Editor’s Pick of IFA 2017.

ZOPO at the IFA 2017 last week announced P5000 and Z5000, two new mid-range smartphones. Both these have a 13-megapixel rear camera with Sony IMX258 sensor along with a secondary 5-megapixel camera to capture depth information and a 16-megapixel front-facing camera with soft LED flash. These are powered by an Octa-Core MediaTek Helio P10 SoCs, have 4GB of RAM, run Android 7.0 (Nougat), feature unibody metal design and pack a 5000mAh battery with support for 15W fast charging. Continue reading “ZOPO P5000 with 18:9 display and Z5000 with 5000mAh battery, dual rear cameras announced”

Huawei at the IFA 2017 announced Kirin 970, its next-generation processor of high-end devices and the world’s first mobile SoC with dedicated Neural Processing Unit (NPU). It is an Octa-Core SoC with four ARM Cortex A73 Cores clocked up to 2.4GHz and four ARM Cortex A53 Cores clocked up to 1.8 GHz, similar to the Kirin 960, but this is built on 10nm TSMC process technology compared to 16nm FinFET process in the predecessor and has a faster ARM Mali-G72MP12 GPU. It has support for LTE Category 18 offering download speeds of up to 1.2 Gbps. Continue reading “Huawei Kirin 970 10nm SoC with dedicated neural network processing unit announced”